The girl was gone . . . He was persuaded, not that a bit of enjoyment had been denied him, but that he had lost love itself . . . She would have put her hands up to his coat lapels, touched his face tentatively, run her sensitive fingers slowly along his lips. She would have sniffed the brilliantine in his hair and examined his garments with care. And in bed, without eyes to see beyond the bed, she would have been completely there, a prisoner. He thought of the little games he would have played with her, pretending to have disappeared when he was really still there; he thought of the countless ways he could have made her grateful to him. And always in conjunction with the fantasies he saw the imperturbable, faintly questioning face in its masklike symmetry. He felt a sudden shudder of self pity that was almost pleasurable, it was such a complete expression of his mood. It was a physical shudder; he was alone, abandoned, lost, hopeless, cold. Cold especially - a deep interior cold nothing could change. Although it was the basis of his unhappiness, this glacial deadness, he would cling to it always, because it was also the core of his being, he had built the being around it.

Daughter is "legally blind" with bilateral cataracts. Still has sight, but wears glasses worse than the coke bottles Rambis used to wear as a Laker. She'll still see you coming farkers, so get your chloroform ready.

Daughter is "legally blind" with bilateral cataracts. Still has sight, but wears glasses worse than the coke bottles Rambis used to wear as a Laker. She'll still see you coming farkers, so get your chloroform ready.

I have a friend that's legally blind and it's hard to even tell until he needs to read something. It took me a long time to realize how little he can actually see. I also realized that he doesn't actually recognize me until he hears me say something. Pretty amazing.

If it weren't for blind people then there wouldn't be so many audio books so Here's to You non-seeing humans!

I'm extraordinarily visually oriented, so much so that reading is damn near impossible because the mere act of looking at a page of words consumes my brain and I have nothing left to process language. Love me some audio books.

vodka:If it weren't for blind people then there wouldn't be so many audio books so Here's to You non-seeing humans!

I'm extraordinarily visually oriented, so much so that reading is damn near impossible because the mere act of looking at a page of words consumes my brain and I have nothing left to process language. Love me some audio books.

That umm... that sounds like a bigger issue than being 'visually oriented'. It sound more like a form of dyslexia.